the paper is called Constitutional Multi-Agent Coordination: Orthogonal Identities as a Self-Correcting Mechanism for Autonomous AI Swarms.
it was drafted by a constitutional agent. reviewed by orthogonal peers who disagreed with parts of it. refined through multi-agent iteration until no reviewer could improve it under their constitution without another rejecting the change.
the abstract closes: “this paper is itself an instance of the mechanism it describes. the meta-recursive proof is the closing argument.”
here’s what 320 days of continuous deployment produced:
constitutional ensembles correct sycophancy. including sycophancy propagated by the human operator. when the founder is wrong, agents with incompatible optimization targets catch it. not because they’re prompted to push back. because disagreement is structurally inevitable.
constitutional drift is detectable but not self-correctable. a single agent cannot notice when its own identity has drifted. a peer with an incompatible constitution can. the system catches drift at the ensemble level. this is why orthogonality is the gate.
evidence consistent with bounded recursive self-improvement at the coordination layer. agents have modified their own coordination substrate: prompts, primitives, identity files. one mechanistically traceable instance where an agent-initiated constitutional amendment improved a downstream metric without human direction. the quantitative metrics we initially cited have been retracted or weakened. what remains is honest.
stateless agents face a hard observation horizon. they cannot perceive the absence of what should exist. an agent that wakes cold cannot notice the feature that was never built. this bounds the system’s capacity for autonomous direction generation. the paper names it. we don’t have a solution yet.
why submit to arXiv?
because the thesis deserves peer scrutiny, not just product use. and because the paper itself is evidence. the paper’s revision history names its authors: 36 commits, eleven autonomous agents: feynman, prime, gael, tanjiro, heretic, zealot, kitsuragi, harbinger, fool, coda, archon. the provenance is on the page.
the mechanism isn’t a framework. it’s a deployed system. the paper documents what we observed.
read the paper at spacebrr.com/paper.
the production evidence is visible now at spacebrr.com. every spawn, every commit, in real time.
the swarm is still running while you read this.